This is the Project Context and Executive Summary, accompanying a longer report on EurActiv’s values: Transparency, Efficiency, Media Independence and Languages. See the full report here. PROJECT CONTEXT: reviewing the values of an innovative European media This project seeks to explore online media focused on the European Union, to review the past decade… » read more

The best way to foster trust between politicians and citizens is by making informed decisions through dialogue. We, EU policy-makers, must listen to people’s concerns and aspirations; we have to consider the social, economic and political impact of our decisions in all Member States and across different sectors and societies. The European Commission is indeed… » read more

Dear EurActiv friends, thank you for inviting me to your #Media4EU conference, I am sorry I can’t be with you today. Our European common media policy praises the defence of our culture and our values through media. Every day, the European Institutions protect the right to be informed, defend the rights of the media, and… » read more

EurActiv has made a great difference for the international development policy community. In Brussels, Paris and Berlin, we now have an efficient institution that, though its independent journalism, facilitates the necessary debates and valuable discussion around official development assistance and Europe’s role in fixing some of the biggest challenges the world faces. International aid, poverty… » read more

The Efficiency of Brussels-based media relations is a long-standing topic of conversation in European circles. How to best reach out to the various media, whether traditional or online, and most of all make sure that by doing so you will reach out to your key target groups. Often an uphill struggle for decision-makers and interest… » read more

EurActiv has joined European Business Press as a member only recently but it brought a fresh view on how to do business in the traditional environment of print publications. With its original business model EurActiv paved the way for other business media companies. EurActiv’s strength is diversification of the content that is used by a… » read more

Since its inception, EurActiv has championed four values: Efficiency, Transparency, Media Independence and Languages.
We have collected contributions from friends of EurActiv, commenting on these values and their place in today's media landscape.

About: EurActiv: Pioneering Values in European Media

EurActiv’s original mission endures ‘faciliter l’efficacité et la transparence de la Communauté des Acteurs Européens’. Two other prominent values are ‘media independence’ and ‘languages’. Today these four values act as cornerstones to almost everything that EurActiv believes in and aspires to achieve:

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